Julia Domna 193-217 AD

Silver denarius, 19 mm.
Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA
Draped bust of Julia facing right.
Rev: DIANA LVCIFERA
Luna standing with torch, crescent moon behind.

Minted between 196 and 211 AD.

Julia Domna was intellegent, beautiful and influential, the daughter of the Syrian priest of Baal, she married Septimius Severus in ca. 186 AD. She surrounded herself with poets and intellectuals. She starved herself to death in 217 AD following the assassination of Caracalla.